Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z
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EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects “a very fast ramp-up” of Oakley Meta
Sound revenue growth at 7.3% in Q2 and H1 AI glasses speeding up further Anuj Bhatia / The Indian Express : Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses see surge in demand as revenue triples, says EssilorLuxottica I...
In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says Meta's “culture of fear”, with performance reviews and rolling layoffs, is like “a metastatic cancer”
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Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly “risk-averse”
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Source: Meta plans to break up its civil rights team, which helped develop tech to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps
Kalley Huang / The Information : Bluesky: @martinsfp and @jaydolan . X: @ericnewcomer Bluesky: @martinsfp : One sad part of this is ‘this would be a bad look’ wasn't even a factor that stopped them. ...
Source: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that some of Meta's changes were “pretty ham-fisted, borderline unintentional” and Meta is planning some corrections
Kalley Huang / The Information : Bluesky: @abunchofmalarkey . Threads: @firerock31 . X: @amir Bluesky: @abunchofmalarkey : Nothing to worry about. There are only 3 billion facebook users worldwide. ...
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost
7.0M — 2,040 … The fine-tuning data includes publicly available … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta Unveils New Llama 3.3 70B AI Model with Higher Cost-Efficiency Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : ...
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July
doubling in a year Laurent Giret / Thurrott : OpenAI Says ChatGPT Doubled its User Base to 200 Million Weekly Active Users in a Year Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : ChatGPT weekly active users grow to 20...